I don't have a link for this because it came in an email (from AEI):
America ’s farmers are highly productive, as Thursday’s Thanksgiving meal demonstrates. The Census Bureau reports that U.S. farmers this year will raise 272 million turkeys and produce 690 million pounds of cranberries, 1.6 billion pounds of sweet potatoes, and 1 billion pounds of pumpkins. And they are doing this while bringing down costs. According to the American Farm Bureau Federation, the real cost of Thanksgiving dinner has declined 9 percent in the past twenty years. As policymakers in Washington debate reauthorization of the farm bill-–a bill in which, according to AEI adjunct scholar Dan Sumner, “pretty much everywhere you look, farm subsidies are being increased”--it is worth noting that none of these traditional Thanksgiving foods receives a direct government subsidy. Enjoy.
That is good news, although I'm not a big fan of cranberries, sweet potatoes or pumpkins. Is stuffing subsidized? I'm not sure, but I'm having some anyway.
